As with the following professionals;

Old punsters never die, they just come to the end of the punch line.
Old accountants never die, they just lose their balance.
Old actors never die, they just drop apart.
Old anthropologists never die, they just become history.

Old archers never die, they just bow and quiver.
Old astronauts never die, they just go to another world.
Old auditors never die, they just lose their figures.
Old automechanics never die, they just become exhausted and get retired.
Old bakers never die, they just stop making dough.
Old barbers never die, they just have close shaves.
Old beekeepers never die, they just buzz off.
Old burglers never die, they just steal away.
Old cartographers never die, they just lose their way.
Old cashiers never die, they just check out.
Old chemists never die, they just stop reacting.
Old dentists never die, they just lose their pull.
Old diary farmers never die, they just go to the udder place.
Old doctors never die, they just lose their patience.
Old fishermen never die, they smell that way.
Old game-show hosts never die, they will be back after these messages.
Old gravediggers never die, they just spade away.
Old grammarians never die, they just lose their verb and slip into a comma.
Old hairdressers never die, they just curl up and dry.
Old lawyers never die, they just lose their appeal.
Old librarians never die, they just become overdue and lose their circulation.
Old mathematicians never die, they just go off on a tangent.
Old photographers never die, they just stop developing.
Old plumbers never die, they just pipe down or they just get out of sink and go down the drain.
Old police officers never die, they just cop out.
Old pollsters never die, they just get broken down by age, sex, and marital status.
Old population experts never die, they just take leave of their census.
Old professors never die, they just lose their class.
Old psychiatrists never die, they just shrink away.
Old reporters never die, they just meet their deadlines.
Old school principles never die, they just lose their faculties.
Old skiers never die, they just go downhill.
Old teachers never die, they just grade away and lose their class.
Old typists never die, they just lose their touch.
Old wrestlers never die, they just lose their grip.

—Sources of information: Richard Lederer and Geoff Tibballs

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